[jbrigham]

Does anyone know if there is any way to display the Computer Name (from Sharing pref) in the menu bar? We have a lab full of servers, all of which share a monitor and it would be nice to have some way to identify them in the Finder. I've found a number of utilities that willl show IP address, but not yet the name.

Thanks in advance.

[lenox]

Does it have to be in the menubar?

If not, there's tons of options, like a konfabulator widget or even...a custom desktop picture for each machine.

Sorry that this wasn't the answer you were looking for

[drive-thru]

If you enable Fast User Switching, the name of the logged-on user will show up in the top-right of the menu bar. You would just have to rename the users to the name of the computer.
You can see it in the picture on this page:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/

The picture shows when the FSU tab is clicked, when it is not it just shows the name of the user in Bold (similar to how the time is displayed).

Edit:

[Diggory Laycock]

Wow - I was wondering how easy that would be to hack-up.

The answer was - very easy.

http://www.monkeyfood.com/software/c...NameInMenubar/

Code:
-(void)awakeFromNib
{
    NSStatusBar         *bar = [NSStatusBar systemStatusBar];
    NSString            *localHostName =    [[[NSHost currentHost] name] stringByDeletingPathExtension];
    NSAttributedString  *itemTitle = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString: localHostName attributes: nil ];

    appStatusItem = [[bar statusItemWithLength: NSVariableStatusItemLength] retain];
    [appStatusItem setAttributedTitle: itemTitle];
    [itemTitle release];
}

[jbrigham]

That works perfectly - thanks Diggory! It seemed that the information must be there and easily accessible and you proved that it is.

Thanks also to everyone else for the suggestions.

[Randman]

winswitch might be able to help you customize your fast user switching. Great freeware (and nothing to do with Windows).

[matvon]

Diggory,

WOuld you mind posting the ProjectBuilder project and source for that? I think a lot of people would like to see how to code a simple sniglet like this?

Thanks

CSHLDOC

[Diggory Laycock]

Sure - click on the link again - I've added the source as a separate archive.